[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 66 (Tuesday, May 21, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S4577]
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                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate will shortly begin with a period 
for morning business that will last for 30 minutes. The Senate will 
then resume consideration of the trade act. There will be 90 minutes of 
debate in relation to the Rockefeller-Mikulski-Wellstone steel 
amendment prior to a rollcall vote on a motion to invoke cloture on the 
amendment at approximately 11 o'clock.
  Senators have until 10 a.m. this morning to file second-degree 
amendments to the steel amendment and until 1 p.m. to file first-degree 
amendments to the Baucus substitute amendment.
  A cloture motion was filed last night on the bill itself, and the 
vote will take place tomorrow.
  The Senate will recess from 12:30 until 2:15 p.m. for the weekly 
party conferences.
  There are numerous amendments now pending on this trade bill. We will 
do our best to work through those amendments. It will be difficult to 
do that. As we know, we can do about three votes an hour. It will take 
a lot of hours to complete all of those amendments. We will do our best 
to work through that. We hope the managers can accept some of these 
amendments. That would save a lot time. There are other amendments that 
Senators wish to offer. The key amendment, I am told, is the Kerry 
amendment which is the fifth in order of the amendments pending. I hope 
we can get to that quickly. If we can work out some limited debate on 
it, that would be beneficial. But unless we have a unanimous consent 
agreement, it will be very hard to get time even for debate on that.
  There is a lot of work to do.
  I understand that today the House is trying to get a rule on the 
supplemental appropriations bill. If they do that, it is possible we 
could get the supplemental sometime late tomorrow. That being the case, 
I am confident Senator Byrd and Senator Daschle would like to do the 
supplemental bill prior to our leaving for the Memorial Day recess. 
There is a lot of work to do with the limited number of days.

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